Building Britain's Merchant Navy

Besides warships many merchant ships were built at top speed in Britain's yards to replace the losses caused by German Submarines. Here is a merchant ship in the first stage of construction. In his speech on September 26th Winston Churchill stated that, "If we are losing tonnage we are also taking steps to replace it on a much larger scale. Old ships which were laid up are being refitted and prepared for sea. An enormous building programme of new ships of a simple character capable of being rapidly built is already at full capacity."

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